Comparative analysis of the α-like globin clusters in mouse, rat, and human chromosomes indicates a mechanism underlying breaks in conserved synteny

Genome Research

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 623-630

  Tufarelli, Cristina ^a,e   Hardison, Ross ^b,c   Miller, Webb ^b,c   Hughes, Jim ^a   Clark, Kevin ^a   Ventress, Nicki ^a   Frischauf, Anna Maria ^d   Higgs, Douglas R ^a  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLOBIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 11; CHROMOSOME 16P; CHROMOSOME 17; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYNTENY; TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GLOBINS; HEMOGLOBIN A; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PSEUDOGENES; RATS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYNTENY;

EID: 4744358230     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.2143604     Document Type: Article

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